“Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Primary Source Questions” (Poster)
Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Time: 9:30am-10am ET
Tour the resources and learning opportunities available in the Right Question Institute’s primary sources online hub. Discover how the Question Formulation Technique can unlock primary source learning for all students.
“Bringing It All Together: Facilitating student centered historical inquiries through the Question Formulation Technique, Teaching with Primary Sources, and the C3-IDM” (Workshop)
Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Time: 10am-10:50am ET
Speakers:
- Katy Connolly, The Right Question Institute
- Ann Canning, TPS Eastern Region – Waynesburg University
- David Hicks, School of Education, Virginia Tech
- Sara Evers, School of Education Virginia Tech
Inquiries need compelling questions for students to explore. Too often, students are left out of the question generation phase of an Inquiry and simply provided with teacher-based questions. Our session introduces how the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is being used alongside the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program to spark student-generated questions as a way into hard histories. Using an explain, demonstrate, play approach, participants will experience a QFT lesson that layers student questions within a Guided Inquiry Design Model examining President Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to invite Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House in 1901.